Nikolay Yershov

Nikolay Yershov (3 February 1890-16 June 1920) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary who served as a political commissar of the Red Army.

Biogrpahy
Nikolay Yershov was born on 3 February 1890 in Novopolotsk, Russian Empire (present-day Navapolatsk, Belarus) to a Jewish family. Yershov worked at a steel mill for years, and he was exiled to Siberia in 1908 for his membership of the Bolshevik party. Yershov returned to politics after the 1917 Russian Revolution, and Yershov became a political commissar of the Red Army. In 1920, he was captured by the Green Army during its anti-Soviet uprising, and he was executed by firing squad.